I had many bookmarks on various informative programs available on the Internet from this radio station. I loved to click on these shows and listen to them. I never tired of exploring the archives, looking for interesting treasures to listen to. I did not spend an exorbitant amount of time on this, but sometimes it could take a hefty bite out of an hour.

In addition to having bookmarks on my computer that could take me to EPR's worldly treasures, I had buttons set on my car radio. When I was traveling, I felt I had time to kill, time to listen to the interesting activities going on all over the world and being filtered through and reported by so many interesting minds.

The past few weeks, however, I noticed that the little bit of spiritual information I attempted to glean was way off-base, scripturally. I noticed, especially, how I felt a little more a sense of how listening to EPR, even only as much as I did, was not the most prudent use of my time.

At the laundry, while I was doing the clothes, I felt a question come into my heart that did not come from me. It was, "Victor, do you want to ask Me if it is okay for you to spend your time listening to EPR?" I eagerly responded, "Yes, I do." I knew, even as I took out the coin with which I was going to get God's opinion (and follow it), that I could be saying goodbye to EPR for good. Although I was a little nervous about the potential change in my routine that could come if I had to stop this entertainment, I truly did not feel remorse about it.

I prayed to the Lord, knowing that His hand was involved in this flip of the coin and asked, "God, do you want me to stop listening to EPR?" It was heads, which meant "Yes." I smiled, knowingly and rested in His answer. I changed the button on my car radio and when I got home, I erased all my EPR bookmarks. I am trying to fill the time and space with things of a more spiritual nature. There is no reason I can't totally focus on God and less on man and his world. The world will get along fine without my focus, but I may not get along very well with only the world's knowledge and "wisdom." I'd much rather spend time knowing God, in both prayer and scripturally sound wisdom in books and sermons available on the Net. I am happy about the change.

Nature of God: I am so happy that God, Himself, asked me if I'd like to ask Him about my listening to EPR. It was not my idea. It slipped in between my own thoughts and I knew it was God. Yes, Lord, I said, I want to know what Your will is regarding this. The flip of the coin, properly acknowledging God's all-knowing and all-powerful hand in the flip, revealed that His will was that I cease listening to EPR. EPR is a good station, for its purposes, but its purposes are no longer my purposes, and God can use my time in better ways. I am grateful to be purposefully shifting away from the temptation to go to any of the radio buttons or Internet bookmarks that lead to the mammon.

God cares about each of us individually. Had God asked this question of me a week earlier, I might have been reluctant to "give up" one of my favorite radio stations. But He had been preparing me for this time—and when He finally did ask me to ask Him, I was fully prepared to follow through and delete the station from my radio, my computer and my heart and mind. Lord, I pray, help me use my time (which is really Your time) in the best possible way.

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